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May 2, 2020

Making sure you land that summer internship.

Summer is coming and with it the internships season. — Disclaimer: I started my design/frontend developer career by doing a summer internship with the Nest Collective. Right after the summer, I started working with Deemaze Software, and since then I’ve been involved in the recruitment phase for two years of internships with dozens of candidates. …

Summer Internships

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Making sure you land that summer internship

Published in Nest Collective Writing Wall

·Apr 17, 2019

Nest Collective Summer Internship ’19

The fourth edition of our summer internship is now open for applications. ️☀️ — Are you ready to launch your career? The Nest Collective Summer Internship ’19 is your best way to enter the world of product development. And we’re glad to announce that applications are now officially open. In our internship, you’ll have the chance to work with experienced people in the software…

Internships

3 min read

Published in Deemaze Writing Wall

·Feb 27, 2019

Demystifying Accessibility: Do only highly disabled people benefit from it?

How to stop viewing accessibility as an extra-mile, and start integrating an empathy-driven process in software teams. — In this series of blog posts, we’re going to analyse some common misconceptions about building accessible software. …

Accessibility

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Jan 7, 2019

Death camp

Journal of a trip through Auschwitz and Birkenau. — When I was 16, I developed an obsession with the Holocaust. I was both horrified by all the cruelty in that piece of human history and, at the same time, fascinated by the heroic stories of people who defied that growing system, often risking and losing their lives. I believe…

Holocaust

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Published in Deemaze Writing Wall

·May 3, 2018

CSS Grid — Responsive layouts and components

Let’s make a photo gallery responsive quickly and using very few lines of CSS. — Hello again! 👋 Today we’re going to talk about how to build responsive layouts while using CSS Grid. If you’re just starting with Grid, I recommend that you read my first blogpost before this one. Baby steps! In this post, we’re going to build a photo gallery (on our fictional…

CSS

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CSS Grid — Responsive layouts and components

Published in Deemaze Writing Wall

·Jan 31, 2018

CSS Grid layout — crossed sections

An introduction to CSS Grid and its potential with a practical example. — My first contact with CSS Grid was at a talk from Rachel Andrew and I was fascinated by the problems it solves and possibilities it creates. …

CSS

7 min read

Published in Deemaze Writing Wall

·Oct 25, 2017

Deemaze brand guidelines

We gathered some rules to help you use our brand flawlessly. — Creating Deemaze’s logo and brand was a long and devoted process. After going through all that, we became quite attached to our brand. Because of that, we worked on simple guidelines to help you use our branding assets in a way that represents our company’s brand effectively. You can download…

Logo Design

3 min read

Published in Nest Collective Writing Wall

·May 3, 2017

Thoughts on our Nestathon

Find out all about our first edition of Nest-à-tona. — At Nest Collective, we’d been thinking about doing an internal hackathon for quite some time. Get everyone together for a weekend and do what we like the most — build stuff. Thankfully, ShiftAPPens was just the push we needed to get this going (even without a mechanical bull)! So, now…

Hackathons

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·Aug 8, 2016

The interns got through another week!

After our first week at Nest Collective, the mentors gave us a challenge: make a project that helps new and independent bands grow and get noticed. For one entire week, we laid all cards in the table and tried to figure out what the market was lacking. …

Startup

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Summer Internship by Nest Collective, Part. 3.